• The Spencer County Public Library’s child summer reading program is now over. The library had a big turnout and anyone who participated needs to pick up their prize package. The coupons in the prize package have an expiration date, so pick the prize packages up today.
• Adult summer reading has started. Library employees invite adults to join in the fun and win great prizes like a year subscription to The Spencer Magnet.
• In July the library is offering free yoga classes Mondays at 10 a.m. and Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m.

Democrat Kent Stevens (D-Lawrenceburg) outraised and outspent incumbent state Rep. Kim King (R-Harrodsburg) by a wide margin when the two squared off in 2010, and is well on his way to doing the same this year.
Stevens, who is vying to regain the 55th District seat he lost to King in 2010, has raised $21,100 through June 21, nearly double King’s total of $10,869, according to totals posted on the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance’s website through last Friday.

Remember when you were a child? A couple of weeks before Christmas, colorfully wrapped presents would begin to appear under the family Christmas tree. You could think of nothing other than what was in each box. Those couple of weeks of waiting to open the gifts seemed like years. Finally, Christmas morning would come. It was the most exciting day of the year, the day you finally got to open the presents and receive the gifts inside.

Spencer County Superintendent Chuck Adams said the last bit of news he expected to hear on July 5 was that he had been named the Kentucky Association of School Administrators’ Administrator of the Year, but it was true. He had secured the honor.

Water proved to retain its status as a hot button issue during last Tuesday night’s meeting of the Taylorsville City Commission.
County water customer Nathan Lawson appeared before the commission to ask a couple of water-related questions, and Commissioner Nathan Nation presented the idea of a Citizens Water and Sewer Advisory Board.
Lawson addressed the Commission to follow up on his concerns about water rates voiced at a previous meeting.